Saccostrea cuccullata

Saccostrea cucullata, the hooded oyster or Natal rock oyster, is a species of rock oyster found mainly in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.

Saccostrea cuccullata

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaccostreaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Saccostrea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Saccostrea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Saccostrea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 22 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Saccostrea cuccullata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

22 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

7 formations

Gar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°ERas Shagra — 30.09°N, 31.21°EFutuna Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EMekran — 25.50°N, 65.73°ETims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EGabir — 25.25°N, 34.80°EFalse Bay Coral Limestone — 28.37°S, 32.40°E

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The named rock units Saccostrea cuccullata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saccostrea cuccullata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Saccostrea cuccullata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

328 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Saccostrea cuccullata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

15 references

Each of the 22 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 3 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Saccostrea cuccullata

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSaccostrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Born 1778)